Wierd News .... nyuk, nyuk
"Tyler G. Nally" (tgnally@prairienet.org)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 09:50:13 -0500 (CDT)
Weird News
- Police in Radnor, Pennsylvania, interrogated a suspected thief by
placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to
a xerox copier. The message "He's lying" was then placed in the
copier. Each time the police thought that the suspect wasn't
telling the truth, they pressed the "Copy" button, ejecting the
message. Believing that the "lie detector" was working, the suspect
confessed.
- Last July, an entire 86-member jury pool for a criminal case in
Centerville, Tennessee had to be dismissed because, according to
prosecutor Ron Davis, too many members of the pool were related to
each other.
- In St. Louis, a city bus carrying only five passengers was involved
in an accident with a car. By the time police arrived on the scene,
however, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the disabled bus and had
started complaining of whiplash injuries and severe back pain.